My talk on StreamInsight is up next. I’ll try to blog more about that later. For now, I want to mention more about SQLBits itself. This is by far the largest SQL-only conference I’ve attended (I haven’t been to SQL-PASS yet), and it’s great to be involved.
Yesterday I had an all-day seminar about the new items for Developers in SQL 2008. It was a good time — the delegates responded very positively, and many of them have caught up with me since.
But for me, the conference is being a great way of catching up with (and meeting for the first time) a bunch of SQL people that I rarely see. I’ve met people that lived only a few miles from where I grew up, and people that read my blog (Hi!), discovered people who have connections to Adelaide, and even found that my Adelaide friend Martin Cairney (who is also here) has a strange connection to Donald Farmer (of Microsoft), that their parents shared a back fence or something… Now Trevor Dwyer tells me a colleague of his knows me from somewhere… the world is very small here.
My StreamInsight talk will be interesting I hope. I have some stuff to show off, and I plan to involve the audience a little as well. If you’re at SQLBits and feel like being involved in an interactive session, then definitely come along. I want to hear from people in the audience who have dabbled with StreamInsight and also other vendors’ Complex Event Processing offerings. This is a brand new technology from Microsoft, and there will be a large range of adoption levels in the room.
